Early Life On Earth - No Predators, Plenty Of Sex
Mar 23, 2008 Around the Word, Fun, Science
This fossil is not the origin of SEX. However, it is believed to be the earliest form of sex on earth.
Taken from Yahoo:
Early life on Earth - no predators, plenty of sex
Fri Mar 21, 12:45 AM ET
Sexual reproduction may be nearly as old as animal life itself, according to researchers who discovered a new species of organism that lived 540 million years ago.
The tube-like creatures called Funisia dorothea anchored themselves in abundant flocks onto the shallow, sandy seabed of what is now the Australian outback.
Nothing appears to have evolved yet to eat them, so they lived peaceful lives, reproducing sexually at times and by asexual methods such as budding at other times, Mary Droser of the University of California Riverside and colleagues reported in the journal Science.
They behaved very much like modern corals, sponges and other multicellular animals, Droser said in a telephone interview.
“They would have been hitting you mid-calf as you walked in these very dense clusters,” she said. “Almost always, organisms that do this do it as a result of sexual reproduction.”
Dense clusters allow eggs and sperm floated in the water to meet up safely.
The fossilized remains also show the creatures formed buds that grew into full-sized animals, something that coral and sponges do today.
“They were complicated enough to have different modes of reproduction and a fairly complex ecosystem in general,” Droser said.
They lived in dense groups of similar size and aged animals, like mussels and oysters do. “It is common modern ecological strategy, and these guys were doing it in the earliest animal ecosystems on this planet,” she said.
“We think of these strategies as having been in response to competition and in response to predation.”
But there is no evidence of predators. Nothing had yet evolved with teeth or even bones.
Multicellular animal life is believed to have arisen around 600 million years ago.
Funisia dorothea’s name comes from the word for rope in Latin and dorothea after Dorothy, Droser’s mother.
“She’s come with me on digs and done all the cooking and taken care of the kids,” Droser said. “It seemed the right thing to do.”
(Reporting by Maggie Fox; Editing by Will Dunham and Eric Beech)
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20 Things You Didn’t Know About Sex
Mar 23, 2008 Around the Word, Fun, Science
This is quite an interesting read. What is sex really good for? Maybe, to human, just for orgasm……
Taken from Discover Magazine:
Tags: Discover Magazine, magazine, research, Science, sex
Taiwan Presidential Election - Ma Ying-jeou Won (台湾总统大选 - 马英九当选台湾总统)
Mar 23, 2008 Around the Word, Celebrities
Congratulation to Mr Ma. Frankly speaking, I myself do not follow Taiwan politics closely nowadays, but my brother likes to watch Taiwan news/current affairs programme a lots. So more or less, I still know what is going one. Sorry if I am being rude, I seriously feel that the standard of Democratic Progressive Party is really low. The way they talk, their logics, and they way they keep attacking some small little issues instead of really have a complete plan for Taiwan, really make me puke. I hope that Taiwan will have a better future under the leadership of Mr Ma Ying-jeou. However, I am surprised that Mr Ma won by such large vote difference. It just shows that, Taiwanese are really beh tahan already.
Taken from Al Jazeerah English:
Tags: election, KMT, Kuomintang, Ma Ying-jeou, Taiwan
AV事務所 - Hongkong TV Programmes On Japan AV Industry
Mar 22, 2008 Around the Word, Celebrities, Fun, Gossips, Sexy
It takes courage to make this kind of programme, or to focus on Japan AV. Sure, they will be bombarded by lots of people, saying them cheap, low class. But truth is Japan AV has been popular, not just within Japan alone but in among East Asia and South East Asia regions. Japan failed in WWII, but this time, I think they will succeed in colonizing these countries through AV.
I did not subscribe to aTV, nor I watched much in Youtube, so I could not comment much. From some clips, I saw that the programme was introducing different job scopes of different roles in the industry, for example the scout, the director, ect.
We Live In FINANCIAL TIMES - Singapore Being Left Out?
Mar 21, 2008 Around the Word, Gossips, Money, Singapore
Take a look at the picture (click to view enlarged version):
Tags: Financial Times, Hongkong, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore
Jialat dot Com In Top 100 Blogs For Advertlets Singapore?
Mar 21, 2008 Blogosphere, Jialat dot Com, Money
Josh said that, not me. But, there are all together how many blogs registered with Advertlets Singapore? This is what I am keen to know. It doesn’t mean anything if the total is maybe 300 over blogs and Jialat dot Com is at 99th, right?
By the way, I would like to thank Josh for his time to pop by and answer my question. I hope Advertlets will be able to pull in more advertisers and give us bloggers more juicy deals. I am looking forward to see how the partnership between Advertlets and clickTRUE can benefit us bloggers.
Check out Josh’s reply to Jialat dot Com HERE.
Tags: Advertlets, Blogosphere, clickTRUE, Jialat dot Com, Money
